Malaysia Shopping Trip 6 Mar - 7 Mar 2010 Day 2

We woke up to a beautiful Sunday morning and proceeded to Café Citrus for breakfast. Surprisingly this time, the cafe was not as crowded as during our previous stay. At RM130 (USD40.75) for our room including two buffet breakfast, this is great value for money at this Kuala Lumpur accommodation, Hotel Citrus.

Cafe Citrus at our Kuala Lumpur accommodation

Buffet breakfast food

Queue at the egg section

Food from the buffet section

Healthy fruits

Eggs cooked to your liking

With a good variety of breakfast food, we thoroughly enjoyed our first meal of the day. Fortunately we managed to try the croissants and Danish pastry fresh from the oven. These were truly a delight!

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The freshly baked croissants and Danish pastry were something to ‘die’ for.

Yummy Yummy! Freshly baked pastries

After a leisurely breakfast at Café Citrus, we went back to the room and completed our packing. Check out time is at 1200 hrs and after checking out, we made our way to Medan Pasar. However we got caught in slow traffic, which is unusual on a Sunday. We realized that some of the roads were closed thus causing the jam. As such we decided to make our way to Malacca to continue with some last minute shopping in Malaysia before heading home.

Reception cum cashier at Hotel Citrus

Beautiful architecture as we passed

Enjoyed the architecture

Heading to Malacca

On our way to Malacca, we stopped by at one of the many Rest & Relaxation stops to take a break. Here we were greeted by colourful fruits.

Fruits galore

Exiting at the Ayer Keroh exit, we arrived in the Plaza Pandan area of Malacca at approximately 1500 hrs. Again, without our most trusted Garmin global positioning system, we would not have been able to find the place. As we were in this area for the first time, we explored the area and went shopping in EconSave, one of the largest homegrown retailers in Malaysia.


Welcome to historic Malacca

Econsave, one of the many supermarket chains available in Malaysia for your shopping pleasure


When we finished our shopping in EconSave, we made our way to Dataran Pahlawan Megamall. However the car parks were full and since we did not want to waste time hunting for a parking lot, we headed towards Tesco Malacca. On the way to Tesco, we came across Aeon Jusco located just next to Tesco Peringgit.

Dataran Pahlawan, Malacca's Megamall

Aeon Jusco, recently opened

Having recently opened only last month, we decided to check it out. The car park was full but we were fortunate to find a parking lot without too much hassle! This is reported to be the largest AEON Jusco outlet in Malaysia.

Newest kid on the shopping scene, the Aeon Malacca Shopping Centre

Where kids are not forgotten

Care for a haircut at RM12 (USD3.75)?

Testing out the RM12 haircut

Not too bad!!!

Huge and modern, there were tons of shoppers in AEON Jusco. With a number of specialty shops spread over 3 levels, this makes an interesting shopping experience. We managed to get some shopping done and bought some donuts from J Co to bring home. Either J Co’s business was extremely good or the staff just could not cope with the speed at which the donuts had to be replenished. Thus, we ended up waiting almost ten minutes for the donuts.

Brand new and extremely spacious

J. Co for donuts

Mini donuts also available

Our donut selection Not many choices as most were out of stock

Next stop was Tesco, our original destination, for more last minute shopping. Before we started with our shopping here, we went to Medan Selera food court to fill our stomachs. The rice and cooked food from stall no. 4 was not too bad. The chilli was especially spicy and tasted great. The Thai mee bandung at RM5.50 (USD1.75) from stall no. 14 was a letdown. The ABC Special at RM3 (USD0.95) from Stall no. 15 made a sweet and cold dessert.

Rice and cooked food... the chilli made all the difference!

Thai mee bandung Not what we expected

ABC Special (Air Batu Campur which literally means mixed ice and comes with a variety of ingredients such as jelly, corn and nuts)

After dinner, we went to Tesco and shopped till we had whatever we were looking for. We left Tesco and headed back to Singapore around 2000 hrs.

Tesco shopping

The drive from Malacca to Singapore was a smooth drive and we managed to top up our petrol at Gelang Patah before we hit the Tuas Checkpoint just before 2300 hrs.

Reaching immigration

As there was no queue, we managed to clear both the Singapore and Malaysia end of the customs and immigration in fifteen minutes. This turned out to be a successful Malaysia shopping trip. As usual, we enjoyed the delicious tasting Malaysian food and look forward to trying more such dishes.



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